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  • Michael Berg Changes His Story About Nick and Moussaoui
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com In May 2004, after his son Nick was decapitated in Iraq, Michael Berg told a very strange story to CNN to account for the fact that Nick’s University of Oklahoma computer password had come into the possession of Al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, who spent six months in Norman in 2001. In 2005 Moussaoui pled guilty to all six counts of an indictment charging him with terrorism. The elder Berg said that while his son (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan to protest at State of the Union January 31
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 The Year The Chickenhawks will go home to roost by Cindy Sheehan Wed Dec 28, 2005 at 02:07:09 PM PDT
    Since hot, hot Camp Casey in August, some amazing grass roots actions have taken place all over the country. People are starting to speak up and Congress has begun to take action against the criminal and neo-Fascist regime that tried to take over America.
    * CindySheehan’s diary
    From Camp Casey to Katrina to use of chemical weaponry and extraordinary rendition to illegally spying (…)

  • Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Lasseter
    KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
    Five days of interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and (…)

  • ILLEGAL WIRETAPS MAY THREATEN TERROR CASES
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts
    By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN Published: December 28, 2005
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
    The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if (…)

  • Reasonable Expectations
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS
    By Peter Fredson
    December 28, 2005
    The great majority of Americans reasonably expect that their leaders should uphold American traditions, virtues, ethics and morals. As we look back on the G.W.Bush record in the Presidency, over the past five years, we compare it against the reasonable expectations most Americans have of their Presidents.
    One of the great virtues is openness, candor, and transparency, clear exposition of facts, frankness, honesty, (…)

  • IN TRUTH
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kevin and Monica Benderman
    “”George W. Bush
    When are you going to tell the truth to the people of the United States? Why don’t you tell them why you want to be in Iraq so bad? I was there for six months and I did not see the first weapon of mass destruction. I did receive orders from the company commander to shoot children if they threw small rocks at us and that was when I figured out that the entire thing was way over the line.
    Over 1200 soldiers have died in Iraq so that you can (…)

  • Internet Fosters Local Political Movements
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RON FOURNIER
    FORT MYERS, Fla. - Frustrated by government and empowered by technology, Americans are filling needs and fighting causes through grass-roots organizations they built themselves - some sophisticated, others quaintly ad hoc. This is the era of people-driven politics.
    From a homemaker-turned-kingmaker in Pittsburgh to dog owners in New York to a "gym rat" here in southwest Florida, people are using the Internet to do what politicians can’t - or won’t - do.
    This is their (…)

  • The future is here - and it works
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There is nothing very exciting about the sliver of silicon in a computer chip, the slab of coated aluminium in a hard disc or the strands of glass used in optical fibre. These basic components have become so commonplace that most of us long since learnt to take them for granted.
    But something has been happening to the fundamental building blocks of the computing and networking age, along with the systems into which they are assembled. In short, the foundations upon which our (…)

  • Bush Administration Refuses to Comply With FOIA Request on Pre-War Intelligence
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff members report that the White House and the Departments of State and Defense have for six months refused to comply with a request filed under the Freedom of Information Act by 52 Congress Members - a request seeking information on the Bush Administration’s reasons for going to war.
    On June 30th of this year, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (Dem., Mich.) and 51 other Congress Members submitted a FOIA request (…)

  • The War on Christmas
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    Merry Christmas and a happy new year I got coal in my sack and a half shaven beard I’m going down my list And I have a few bones to pick With some of the bad kids running today’s politics
    You see Santa’s a humanitarian And brings cheer through the night Even to the third world, so you better be nice War is not is not fun and killing is not merry The architects of Iraq better be wary
    Thousands of children Were left dead in Iraq Because little boy Bush Was on the wrong (…)